PlanetSide: Core Combat

The first official PlanetSide expansion offers some new goodies, but we have to ask: Why isn't this a patch?
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PlanetSide: Core Combat adds a new style of gameplay to PlanetSide with head-to-head urban warfare, testing players' skills as they react quickly to enemy troops in high-adrenaline fire-fights in subterranean alien complexes. With six new underground war zones, additional weapons, vehicles, and enhanced empire bonuses, Core Combat creates a new dimension for players to master in PlanetSide's all-hours-of-the-day online conflict.

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Sony's PlanetSide was the first major game of its kind: a massively multiplayer first-person shooter. EverQuest meets Quake, if you will. The game offered a persistent world and large-scale battles both in the air and on the ground. And now, with a new expansion, you can add "underground" to that list. Core Combat adds several large caverns that contain alien technology as well as base power-ups that can give bonus abilities to the side that controls them, such as force fields or increased speed for troops. All of this may sound like a good idea that would add to the gameplay experience, but in practice it really doesn't. Read More »

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Features

Six new massive underground war zones; new ancient technology vehicles and weapons which can be used by all empires; head to head urban style combat in subterranean cities; unique alien complexes to explore and conquer; new underground environments from volcanic lava flows to ice caverns; ancient technology can be used by all empires to upgrade existing surface level facilities.